Creek Addict

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The fam and I decided to head out last Saturday and enjoy the gorgeous weather at one of the local parks. While the wife played with the baby, the baby played with his fish, and my dog laid in the grass, I decided to play with a few carp I saw cruising the pond’s edges. This was new water for me, so I wasn’t even really aware that there were carp here (I had my suspicions). It was supposed to be a “family” day. I wasn’t supposed to go fishing. I mean, Come on. You can’t expect a guy to watch fish tail around in the shallows and not do something about it. It’s like holding a crack rock in front of a crack fiend’s face that hasn’t had his fix in months. I hadn’t landed a carp since the fall of ‘09. I NEEDED one. Just one. Lucky for everyone involved, I always carry some rods in the car. Game on.

Victory!

Just a little guy, but I’ll take it.

Even the dog thinks they smell gross.

Enjoy your beer thirty everyone!

Nick and I took a LONG hike to a new spot on one of our favorite rivers last week. I’m talking 10 miles round trip. It was tough, no joke. I’m fucking fat, OKAY. Get off my case. It was worth it though — seriously worth it. The caddis hatch was off the charts and the fish were hungry. We got into them pretty good all day long. Normally a 16-inch fish earns the title of “fish of the day” at this place, but we were catching so many of them in that range, we just stopped taking pictures. My legs hurt for, like, the two days after the trip, but I didn’t care. Drooling at the pictures the next day, I can’t wait to go back. Maybe it’ll make me lose a few pounds and my wife will stop calling me fat boy. Woo yaaaa! Enjoy the pictures.

First fish of the day.

Another decent brown caught by Nick.

I got out from behind the camera and did some fishing and caught a real nice one. Nick took the pictures.

Another angle.

About the average for the day.

We were catching them on dries, wets, and nymphs. All wild fish.

Nick and a nice one.

Release.

Another fatty, filled to the gills with caddis.

Nick’s fish of the day. Caught in some really calm glassy water sippin dries.

I love this picture. The red spots look gorgeous on this fish.

Watch this video in 1080P to be able to see the caddis in the first half of the video. It was nuts.

I know I’ve been neglecting the blog as of late. I just haven’t had time to do any good updates. I’ll be posting some pictures from some of the recent outings at least.

A look downstream on a new (to us) piece of water.

First fish of the day.

Feeder stream.

Hungry for stones.

Sweet release.